Index title: HCRUZ’s MAR [02-05]

MAR Title: Carry on

Date of  medical observation: August, 2005 

NARRATION

    This is a case of a 46-year-old, female patient. She was admitted due to soft tissue abscess of the perineum and left lower extremity. Although surgical incision and drainage was done with appropriate antibiotic therapy coverage, the wound care for said patient still required at least an hour and a half to 2 hours of daily extensive flushing and evacuation of massively accumulating pus. To make the undertaking of wound cleaning more arduous than it already was, the patient initially had:

1. No family to take care of her.

2. No funds to procure the essentials needed for her cure.

3. No nursing care.

4. No resolve to make her condition better.

    I am ashamed to say that at times I’ve wanted to throw in the towel and give up on her. But thankfully, we did not. We kept on and on for weeks and we became her:

1. Family and took care of her.

2. Scavengers who hunted for the things that she needed.

3. Doctors and nurses.

4. Friends who encouraged her.

            Life couldn’t be any sweeter than the day when the patient became well enough to go home. Her happy countenance and profuse thanks more than paid off our tribulations. She said we made her well – her angels. But she had no idea she made our life richer and more humane – I believe she’s our angel.

INSIGHT (Physical, Psychosocial, Ethical) (Discovery, Stimulus, Reinforcement)

            I have learned that no matter how bleak the situation, by no means should we ever give up, because life is a storage of surprises. We are doctors – the guardians of life, let us be pleasantly surprised with what our patients bring for us.